Catholic solution

Your correspondent claims (Letters, September 12) that the Vatican "argues for unlimited population growth". If there is a "population problem" it seems strange to attack an organisation which promotes celibacy, chastity and sexual self-control. As the much-maligned and misunderstood Humanae Vitae states: "In relation to physical, economic, psychological and social conditions, responsible parenthood is exercised ... to avoid for the time being, or even for an indeterminate period, a new birth." Catholicism is quite clearly part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Simon DamesScottish Catholic Media Office